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The Hidden Reason Cancer Patients Vanish: How Dr. Ravi Kannan Reimagined Care in Rural Assam
When a premier surgical oncologist offers free or heavily subsidized treatment, lodging, and meals to impoverished cancer patients, it seems intuitive that patients will stay, finish therapy, and heal. Yet in 2011, when Dr. Ravi Kannan—who had relocated from Chennai’s prestigious Adyar Cancer Institute to lead the remote Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Assam—audited his hospital’s patient records for the very first time, the findings delivered a profound shock: